[PATCH] Should we continue to support CUPS printing without cups-devel?

simo idra at samba.org
Wed Sep 5 10:26:32 MDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:25 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:27:56PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > We seem to have two different modes for CUPS printing.
> > 
> > We can print directly to the cups libs (reliable) or via the old lp
> > system, just using command line defaults that should match what a cups
> > install is expected to do. 
> > 
> > I'm proposing something like the attached.  This way, printing=cups will
> > only actually be accepted by loadparm if we compiled with cups.  
> > 
> > The idea is to either clearly work, or clearly fail.  What do others
> > think?  (If folks really do want to print via the cups lp binary, they
> > can always set printing=bsd and fill in the various commands manually)
> > 
> > What do others think?
> 
> +1 from me - thanks !

+1

Simo.

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